| Preface | 5 |
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| Contents | 7 |
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| List of Participants | 14 |
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| Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st Century | 25 |
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| Future Astrophysical Facilities | 27 |
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| Radio Astronomy Facilities | 28 |
| Future Optical and Near-Infrared Facilities | 44 |
| The New 40-m Radiotelescope of OAN in Yebes, Spain | 60 |
| Design of the Near-term Next Generation Space- VLBI Mission VSOP- 2 | 62 |
| Imaging Across the Spectrum: Synergies Between SKA and Other Future Telescopes | 64 |
| The Korean VLBI Network Project | 66 |
| Frequency Protection for the 21st Century | 68 |
| SCUBA-2: A Large-Format CCD-Style Imager for Submillimeter Astronomy | 70 |
| The Large Millimeter Telescope | 72 |
| An Overview of the Submillimeter Array Telescope | 74 |
| Tunable Heterodyne Receivers - A Promising Outlook for Future Mid- Infrared Interferometry | 76 |
| ESPRIT Exploratory Submillimeter sPace Radio Interferometric Telescope | 78 |
| Fizeau Interferometry with the LBT Astronomy on the Way to ELTs | 80 |
| MUSE: 3D Spectroscopy with Large Telescopes | 82 |
| Layer-Oriented MCAO Projects for 8-m Class Telescopes and Possible Scientific Outcome | 84 |
| Prospects for an Extremely Large Synthesis Array | 86 |
| Interferometry in the Near-Infrared: 1 Mas Resolution at the Wavelength of 1 Micron | 88 |
| Electrical and Geometrical Characterization of the Silicon Flight Sensors of the GLAST/LAT Tracking System | 90 |
| Environmental Testing of the GLAST Tracker Subsystem | 92 |
| The Potential of a Large Cherenkov Array for Supersymmetry and Cosmology | 94 |
| MAGIC: First Observational Results and Perspectives for Future Developments | 96 |
| LOBSTER - Astrophysics with Lobster Eye Telescopes | 98 |
| Novel Light-Weight X-ray Optics for Future X- ray Telescopes | 100 |
| GLAST LAT Science Prospects | 102 |
| Astrophysics with Astronomical Plate Archives | 104 |
| Virtual Observatories and Access to Radio Interferometry Data | 106 |
| Fundamental Physics and Cosmology | 110 |
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| Fundamental Physics with the SKA: Strong- Field Tests of Gravity Using Pulsars and Black Holes | 111 |
| Measuring Variations in the Fundamental Constants with the Square Kilometre Array | 115 |
| ELT Observations of Supernovae at the Edge of the Universe | 119 |
| SKA and the Magnetic Universe | 127 |
| SSF as a Manifestation of Protoobjects in the Dark Ages Epoch: Theory and Experiment | 133 |
| Cosmic Ray Astrophysics with AMS-02 | 135 |
| Studying the Nature of Dark Energy with Current and Future Instruments | 137 |
| Project ASTRAL: All-sky Space Telescope to Record Afterglow Locations | 139 |
| High-redshift Universe, Galaxies, Galaxy Evolution | 143 |
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| Overview of the Science Case for a 50 100m Extremely Large Telescope | 144 |
| Distant Galaxies and Extremely Large Telescopes | 148 |
| Extragalactic Science with the Allen Telescope Array | 152 |
| Spectral Aging in the Relic Radio Galaxy B2 0924+ 30 | 156 |
| Extragalactic Sources with Extended Radio Emission | 158 |
| The B3VLA Sample at Low Frequencies: Results from a Survey at 74 MHz | 160 |
| Modeling the Faint Radio Population: The NanoJY Radio Sky | 162 |
| Radio View of Merging Clusters of Galaxies | 164 |
| AGN and Compact Objects | 168 |
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| Active Galactic Nuclei at the Crossroads of Astrophysics | 169 |
| New Frontiers in AGN Astrophysics: The X-ray Perspective | 185 |
| Deep Radio Source Surveys with the SKA | 189 |
| e-VLBI... a Wide-Field Imaging Instrument with Milliarcsecond Resolution | 189 |
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| Results from Observations of AGNs with the H·E·S·S· Telescope System and Future Plans | 197 |
| The Innermost Regions of AGN with Future mm- VLBI | 201 |
| Probing the Gravitational Redshift Effect from the Relativistic Jets of Compact AGN | 203 |
| VLBA Surveys and Preparation of the | 203 |
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| The Radio Properties of Low Power BL Lacs | 207 |
| Probes of Jet-Disk-Coupling in AGN from Combined VLBI and X- Ray Observations | 209 |
| Towards the Event Horizon: High Resolution VLBI Imaging of Nuclei of Active Galaxies | 211 |
| Two-Component Model for the AGN Broad Line Region | 213 |
| ISM and Formation and Evolution of Stars | 217 |
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| The Physics and Chemistry of High Mass Star Formation with ALMA | 218 |
| Building Complex Molecules During Star- and Planet Formation: Synergy of Infrared and Millimeter Observations | 222 |
| GAIA: Composition, Formation and Evolution of Our Galaxy | 226 |
| Large Scale Surveys with the Arecibo Multibeam System | 230 |
| Preliminary Science Results from the Submillimeter Array | 236 |
| On the Relevance and Future of UV Astronomy | 240 |
| Interrelations Between Str¨ omgren and Vilnius Photometric Systems: An Improvement of Stellar Classification | 244 |
| HH 110 Proper Motions | 246 |
| The Effect of the Galactic Gas Distribution on the Expected Cosmic Rays Spectrum | 248 |
| Exploring Star Formation in the Galactic Centre Region: From ISO to ALMA | 250 |
| Future Observations of Cosmic Masers | 252 |
| Planets and Origins of Life | 256 |
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| Detection and Characterization of Extra-Solar Planets: Future Space Missions | 257 |
| Down to Earths, with OWL | 273 |
| High-Precision Radio Astrometry: The Search for Extrasolar Planets | 277 |
| The CHEOPS Project: Characterizing Exoplanets by Opto- infrared Polarimetry and Spectroscopy | 281 |
| Towards High-Precision Astrometry: Differential Delay Lines for PRIMA@VLTI | 285 |
| Author Index | 287 |
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